Ideally we would use a free sustainable server where files don't expire. I hope donations can sustain your ability to host ISOs for as long as possible. Perhaps a strong long-lasting free alternative will emerge if bandwidth prices fall.

coralcache has already been mentioned, but ruled out for most ISOs because it has a 50MB file size limit. But...

has anyone tried CoBlitz? It seems a very similar idea to coralcache, and is designed with ISOs in mind, up to 20GB (!) in size.

CoBlitz homepage wrote:

How Does It Work?

You add the prefix http://coblitz.codeen.org/ to the URL you want to serve, and CoBlitz does the rest... To give a high-level description of how it operates:

When clients request a large file, they are really contacting a special agent that resides on the CDN node. This agent looks like a standard Web server.

The agent converts the single request from the client into a stream of requests for smaller pieces (chunks) of the file. These requests are spread, in parallel, to other peer CDN nodes.

These peers request the chunks from the origin server, using the byte-range support in HTTP. The peers not only send the request back to the original agent, but also cache their chunks.

The agent reassembles the chunks and sends them back to the client in order, making it appear like one seamless download.

This approach has several benefits:

As peers join/leave the CDN, only the missing parts of the large file need to be re-requested, instead of doing whole-file caching.

Large files can be spread across the main memory of many nodes, reducing the memory pressure on any single node, and reducing the number of disk accesses needed to serve the file.

Since we use HTTP as the underlying protocol, no changes are required to clients or servers. All CoBlitz support is on the CDN itself.

It looks like all we'd have to do is put http://coblitz.codeen.org/ at the start of a regular HTTP iso link. The academic institutions running CoBlitz take care of the rest automatically. That's it, I think.

1 special action on part of person posting a download link: just add http://coblitz.codeen.org/ to the start.

0 special action required from the host (except maybe making sure they don't block CoBlitz nodes from downloading the file)

0 special action required from the downloader: they just do what they usually do with a regular HTTP iso link. No special software required.

File size limits - No files smaller than 100KB or larger than 20GB are served for the general public. Exceptions are provided for PlanetLab users and for US Educational sites.

Content types - We are focusing on serving large files, like ISO images, PDFs, etc. We automatically change the content type of '.iso' files to be 'application/octet-stream'. We do not serve Web pages, images, videos, or audio files for the general public. These restrictions do not apply to files hosted at US Educational sites, or to any downloads initiated at PlanetLab-affiliated addresses.

You can easily make a CoBlitz link out of a regular link. The canonical form is

http://coblitz.codeen.org/Original_URL

Note that the original URL can either contain "http://" or not. (wget complains if you include "http://" in the orignal URL. So, when you use wget, please either use "\" in the second "http://" like "http://coblitz.codeen.org/http:\/\/original_url", or strip off the second "http://", like "http://coblitz.codeen.org/original_url".)

The most famous is Youtube, but there can be problems. For example Youtube doesn't accept videos in the .ogg (Theora) format, the usual default for Linux screencasts as it is open-source/free/libre/gratis.

If you don't want to go through the hassle of converting your video to a format acceptable to Youtube, look for services that accept .ogg. The wikipedia table incudes some (scroll down to the "Files" table).

I also found this French site dedicated to Linux videos and using .ogg:
http://www.linuxvideos.fr/
(But note that you can't do it "automatically"; you have to send them an e-mail.)

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Posted: Sun 17 Feb 2008, 12:27 Post subject:

klu9 wrote:

for files under 100mb in size, a good option seems to be mediafire

www.mediafire.com

Pros

Free

unlimited bandwidth

unlimited time

web-2.0-ish file management & upload progress viewing

easily share with others

downloaders can resume, use download managers, get more than 1 file at a time

Cons

file size limit of 100mb

no hotlinking (can't offer direct links)

upload only thru webpage (no FTP etc)

yes, mediafire is good service, I have already used for dokupuppy, but I have also read that they in future may change policy for file retention (not more unlimited) other say that this policy is already changed. What can yoy say regard this?_________________replace .co.cc with .info to get access to stuff I posted in forum
dropbox 2GB freeOpenOffice for Puppy Linux

yes, mediafire is good service, I have already used for dokupuppy, but I have also read that they in future may change policy for file retention (not more unlimited) other say that this policy is already changed. What can yoy say regard this?

seems good. it say: UNLIMITED FILELIFE, unfortunatly, with Seamonkey, when I try on Puppy 3.01 to upload a file, my browser chashes and I no have idea why it happens_________________replace .co.cc with .info to get access to stuff I posted in forum
dropbox 2GB freeOpenOffice for Puppy LinuxLast edited by Dingo on Mon 10 Mar 2008, 11:59; edited 1 time in total

I was worried that "online storage" is not the same as "hosting" or "sharing" but I found this in ADrive's FAQ:

Quote:

Can I share my files? If so, how?
After uploading a file, you will have several options to the right of the file. One of them is "Share". This will move the file to your "My Shared Files" tab and a unique web link will be generated that you can share with anyone on the internet. All they have to do is open the link to download your shared file.

@Jam or anyone: any experience with ADrive? how reliable etc?_________________- Remember: it's a wiki. You can contribute too!
- Puplet creators, see DistributingYourPuplet

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